Rudolf

In other languages

Afrikaans: Roelof, Rudolf

Albanian: Rudolf

Arabic: رُودُلْف, romanized: rūdulf

Armenian: Ռուդոլֆ (Rudolf)

Catalan: Rodolf

Croatian: Rudolf

Czech: Rudolf

Danish: Rudolf

Dutch: Roelof, Rudolf, Ruud

English: Rudolph, Rodolph, Rolph

Estonian: Rudo, Ruudo, Ruudolf

Finnish: Ruuto, Ruutolffi

Flemish: Roel

French: Rodolphe, Raoul

Georgian: რუდოლფ (Rudolp)

German: Rudolf, Rolf, Rudloff, diminutive: Rudi

Greek: Ροδόλφος (Rhodólphos), Ράλλης (Rhálles)

Hebrew: רודולף (Rudolf)

Hungarian: Rudolf

Indonesian: Rudolf

Italian: Rodolfo

Japanese:ルドルフ (Rudorufu), ルド (Rudo), ルディ (Rudi)

Latin: Rudolphus

Latvian: Rūdolfs, Rūdis

Given name

Royalty and nobility

Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu (died 866)

Rudolph I of Burgundy (c. 859–912)

Rudolph II of Burgundy (880–937)

Rudolph of France (c. 890–936), reigned 923–936

Rudolph III of Burgundy (c. 970–1032)

Rudolf of Rheinfelden (1025–1080), Duke of Swabia

Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg (died 1232)

Rudolf I of Germany (1218–1291)

Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270–1290)

Rudolph I of Bohemia (1281–1307)

Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1306–1353)

Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (1320–1346)

Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (1339–1365)

Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612)

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858–1889), son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (died at Mayerling)

Religious figures

Rudolf of Fulda, 9th-century monk, writer and theologian

Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen (1788–1831), Archbishop of Olomouc and member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine

Rudolf Baláž (1940–2011). Slovak Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banská Bystrica from 1990 until his death in 2011

Rudolph Grossman (1867–1927), Austrian-American rabbi

Wartime figures and military leaders

Rudolf Freiherr Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Colonel-General in the Austro-Hungarian army, the last Imperial Minister for War to the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I

Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff

Rodolfo Graziani, prominent Italian military officer in the Kingdom of Italy's Regio Esercito (Royal Army) and the Minister of National Defence of the Italian Social Republic

Rudolph B. Davila, United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in the European theatre during World War II

Rudolph Bierwirth, General officer in the Australian Army

Rudolf Anderson (1927–1962), U.S. Air Force pilot and first recipient of the Air Force Cross

Rudolf von Bünau, German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and one of the chief commanders of Vienna Offensive

Rudolf von Brudermann, general of Austria-Hungary during the First World War who led the Austro-Hungarian 3rd army during the Battle of Galicia

Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany

Rudolf Berthold (1891–1920), German World War I air ace

Rudolph Douglas Raiford, American World War II combat officer

Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German army officer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing on 21 March 1943, leader of the unit, soldiers of which discovered the mass graves of the Soviet-perpetrated Katyn massacre

Nazis

Rudolf Diels, German Nazi SS official and Director of German secret police Gestapo from 1933 to 1934

Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), German Nazi SS officer and leader of the Jewish skull collection project

Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), Deputy Führer in Nazi Germany, one of the leaders of Beer Hall Putsch, best known for his solo flight to Scotland

Rudolf Höss (1900–1947), German Nazi first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp

Rudolf Jung (1882–1945), Austrian from Bohemia and Nazi theoretician, wrote the first theoretical book on Nazism, “National Socialism: Its Foundations, Development, and Goals,” in 1919

Rudolf Lange, Nazi German SS officer and one of the major perpetrators of the Holocaust, commander of Salaspils concentration camp, one of the leading perpetrators of Jelgava massacre and Rumbula massacre

Rudolf Spanner, Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II who set up a process to produce soap made from human corpses

Rudolf Rahn, Nazi German politician and Plenipotentiary to the Italian Social Republic

Multi-fields

Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist

Literature

Rudolf G. Binding, German writer and supporter of Hitler

Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Latvian writer, journalist and playwright, considered one of the greatest writers in Latvian history and particularly a master of realism

Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846–1926), German philosopher

Rudolf Fischer, German writer

Rudolf Löwenstein, German writer

Rudolf Arapović (1937–2007), Croatian Writer and Dissident

Movie industry

Rudolph Anders, American actor

Rudolph Sternad, American art director and production designer

Rudolf Buitendach, South African born film director and editor

Rudolph Cartier, Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC

Rudolf Carl, Austrian actor

Rudolf Christians, German actor

Rudolf Icsey (1905–1986), Hungarian cinematographer

Rodolfo "Rudy" Mancuso, American actor, Internet personality and musician most notable for his comedic videos on YouTube and previously on Vine

Rudolf Martin, German actor working mainly in the United States

Rudolph Maté, Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer

Rudolf "Ruud" Kleinpaste, Dutch-New Zealand naturalist and TV host

Rudolph Schildkraut, Austrian film and theatre actor

Rudolf Ising, member of the American animation team Harman and Ising, known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios and creating the Looney Tunes

Rudolf Jugert, German film director

Rudolph G. Kopp (1887–1972), Austrian composer

In science and technology

Ralph H. Baer (Rudolf Heinrich Baer) (1922–2014), German-American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer

Rudolf Rudy Ballieux (1930–2020), Dutch immunologist

Rudolph Boysen (1895–1950), American horticulturist, creator of the boysenberry

Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician

Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German inventor of the diesel engine

Rudolf Erren (1899-unk.), German hydrogen-engine pioneer

Rudolf Hauschka (1891–1969), Austrian chemist, author, inventor, entrepreneur and anthroposophist

Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898), German zoologist

Rudolf Fleischmann (1903–2002), German experimental nuclear physicist

Rudolf Kochendörffer (1911–1980), German mathematician

Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016), Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor of the Kalman filter

Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942), German biologist, Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Rudolf Ernst Brünnow (1858–1917), German-American orientalist and philologist

Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961), American biochemist

Musicians

Rudolf Friml (1879–1972), American composer and pianist

Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist

Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), Austrian-American opera impresario

fr:Rodolphe Burger, French composer

Rudolf Friml (1879–1972), composer of operettas, musicals songs and piano pieces, and a pianist

Rudolph Ganz, Swiss-born American pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator

Rodolfo "Fito" Páez (born 1963), Argentine singer-songwriter

Rudolph Isley (1939–2023), American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers

Rudolf Schenker (born 1948), German guitarist and founding member of heavy metal band Scorpions

Rudolph Lewis, British bass-baritone

Rudolf Fischer, German musician

Wage Rudolf Supratman (1903–1938), Indonesian songwriter, and the composer who wrote both the melodies and lyric of the anthem Indonesia Raya

Political figures

Rudolf Anschober (born 1960), Austrian politician

Rudolf von Auerswald, Prime Minister of Prussia during the Revolution of 1848

Rudolph "Rudy" Boschwitz, American politician from Minnesota

Rudolf "Rudy" Andeweg, Dutch political scientist

Rudolph Blankenburg, businessman, manufacturer, and politician from Philadelphia

Rudolf Buttmann, German politician and diplomat

Rudolf Engelhard (born 1950), German politician

Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani (born 1944), American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York City

Rudolf Gnägi, Swiss politician

Rudolf E. A. Havenstein, German lawyer and president of the Reichsbank (German central bank) during the hyperinflation of 1921–1923

Rudolph K. Hynicka, American politician from Ohio

Rudolf Katz, German politician and judge

Rudolph King, American politician from Massachusetts

Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian diplomat, politician and judge, eighth President of Austria

Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics"

Rudolf Krohne (1876–1953), German jurist and politician

Middle name

Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., president of Walgreens and the chairman of the board

Gerald Rudolph Ford, American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States

Dancers

Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Austrian choreographer

Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Soviet-born dancer

Other

Rodolph Austin, Jamaican footballer

Rudolf Bahro, East German dissident

Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver

Rudolph Contreras, American jurist

Rudolph "Rudy" J. Castellani Jr., American pathologist

Rudolf Dassler, German businessman known for sportswear company Puma

Rudolph B. Davila, United States army officer

Rudolf Hrubý (1954–2023), Slovak businessman

Rudolph Weaver, American architect, university professor and administrator

Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer, German football manager and player

Rudolf Abel, the alias of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (1903–1971), a Russian spy

Rudolf Amelunxen, German politician

Rudolf Minkowski, American astronomer

Rudolf Dreikurs, Austrian psychiatrist and educator

Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke, spokesperson of the 1960s German student movement

Rudolf "Rudi" Fischer, Swiss racing driver

Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Mexican American boxer, poet, and political activist

Rudolph Walton, American merchant after whom was named Rudolph Walton School in Philadelphia

Fictional

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, fictional character created by Robert L. May in 1939

Rudolf, a character from 2016 animated film Rudolf the Black Cat

Surname

Athletes

Ernie Rudolph (1909–2003), American baseball pitcher

Gergely Rudolf (born 1985), Hungarian football player

Jack Rudolph (American football) (1938–2019), American football player

Jacques Rudolph (born 1981), South African cricketer

Kyle Rudolph (born 1989), American football player

Mason Rudolph (American football) (born 1995), American football player

Mason Rudolph (golfer) (1934–2011), American golfer

Nils Rudolph (born 1965), German freestyle swimmer

Travis Rudolph (born 1995), American football player

Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994), American athlete

In film and television

Alan Rudolph (born 1943), American film director and screenwriter

Maya Rudolph (born 1972), American actress and comedian

William Rudolph (died 1975), American film technician

In science and technology

Arthur Rudolph (1906–1996), German rocket scientist who helped develop the V-2 and the Saturn V

Emanuel David Rudolph (1927–1992), American botanist, lichenologist, and historian of botany

In music

Anna Lemmer Badenhorst Rudolph (1924–1995), South African composer and author

Jean-Joseph Rodolphe (1730–1812), French horn player, violinist and composer.

Max Rudolf (conductor) (1902–1995), German conductor who spent most of his career in the United States

Kevin Rudolf (born 1983), American musician, singer-songwriter and music producer

Other

Albert Rudolph, birth name of Swami Rudrananda, American entrepreneur and spiritual teacher

Eric Rudolph (born 1966), American serial murderer and terrorist

Jørgen Wilhelm Rudolph (1881–1968), Norwegian businessperson

Julia Ann Rudolph (c. 1820–c. 1890), American photographer

Paul Rudolph (architect) (1918–1997), American architect

Robert Knight Rudolph (1906–1986), American theologian

Robert Livingston Rudolph (1865–1930), American bishop and theologian

Vernon Rudolph (1915–1973), American businessman, founder of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts